At first, it was full of help, everybody was happy and we all welcomed their gospel. They preached to us and we were convinced without much delay, we packed our baggage and followed them. Yes, they clothed us and we fed them, that's on a mutual benefit but being that they were wiser, we denied our god and kicked away our "Chi".

Africans don't do without gods, we so much reverence them, and that was exactly the reason why the missionaries' purpose found fertile lands in Africa. They came and they saw and they planted their own "god" in our midst which they decorated with irresistible aroma of benefits, truly, the whole thing was too tempting to be ignored. At least, their god is a bit more kindhearted than our "ogun", "ogundele", "ogbunigwe" or "amadioha".

Sure, the knowledge of our newly found god was quite amazing but something was wrong somewhere. We needed a reference point through which the new god would be reached. I'm sure you can't blame us for that because we were used to that pattern.

They gave us Bible but high rate of illiteracy posed a big threat, then they gave us Western Education as the only weapon to combat it (illiteracy). Everything was FREE OF CHARGE.

The Missionaries really tried to force the Western Education into our hollow skull, yes, they succeeded but not without pains, African mosquitoes dealt with them severely "maybe, as a revenge for helping us to discard our gods". They conquered and their god honoured their faith and their project came to fruition.

At that point, they gave us a staff of authority to carry on with our newly found faith. Remember, everything was free of charge, that included Western education before they left us.

Too bad that they hadn't even reached their hometown the free western education they left under our custody became polluted and ever since then it has been under a serious bastardization. The education which was offered to us on a free platform has been remoulded into "money-sucking" device.

Where are the old missionary schools? Where is the faith and where is the dignity? As the missionary schools have been turned into "pocket-drainers" leaving many people that swallowed their bait (in the name of Christian school) "koboless". This is absolutely preposterous because its negative effect is no more imperceptible. Our State and Federal Universities are now copying their nerve-wracking tuition fee as a source of extra revenue to enhance their selfish interest.